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Simone Biles has launched a scathing attack on Riley Gaines, comparing her to a man after the former swimmer criticized a Minnesota high school softball team for competing with a trans player. Gaines, 25, has forged a career as a political commentator following her time as a swimmer, where she competed against trans athlete Lia Thomas. On Friday, Gaines retweeted a picture of Minnesota team Champlin Park celebrating the state high school title that they won with transgender pitcher Marissa Rothenberger on the team. It sparked a blistering response from Biles, 28, who first criticized Gaines's view and then compared...

IF Negro rioters demeaned the cause of nonviolence, that was not in most cases their intent. The majority of plunderers and burners in American cities last week were about as ideologically motivated as soldier ants. Many, to be sure, were venting the longstanding resentments of black Americans in a white society. But the Negro looters were predominantly driven by a combination of self-help and help-yourself. What of Martin Luther King? “His death just gave us an excuse,” said Ronald Rudolph, 22, in Pittsburgh. “I never did dig the man much when he was alive.” When a well-provisioned Harlem “liberator” was...

The Pentagon deliberately spread UFO conspiracy theories surrounding Area 51 in an attempt to conceal secret weapons programs, according to a newly released report. A report released by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) found that an Air Force colonel visited a bar near Area 51 in the 1980s – providing the owner fabricated material depicting flying saucers around the highly classified military base, according to the Wall Street Journal’s review of the report released in 2024. The Pentagon reportedly intentionally ran a disinformation campaign on American citizens in an attempt to hide the development of the F-117 Nighthawk, the...

Space junk in Earth's orbit may increase because of the effects of the same heat-trapping gases that are polluting the air and warming the planet, according to a recent study. What's happening? A team led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers determined that, with Earth's warming, space debris could accumulate enough to reduce the low Earth orbit area available for satellites by between a third and 82% by the year 2100, as the Associated Press detailed. The reason for this, per the study published in Nature Sustainability in March, is that climatic changes high above ground could reduce the effectiveness...

Can’t forget this scumbag fast enough. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/31/biden-transgender-day-of-visibility-trump-republicansA Joe Biden White House spokesperson said Republicans who have spent the Easter weekend criticizing the president for declaring Sunday’s annual Transgender Day of Visibility “are seeking to divide and weaken our country with cruel, hateful and dishonest rhetoric”. “As a Christian who celebrates Easter with family, President Biden stands for bringing people together and upholding the dignity and freedoms of every American,” the White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said. “President Biden will never abuse his faith for political purposes or for profit.” Bates’ statement came as the president faced criticism from the campaign...

A 2,000-year-old bone box etched with the name of Jesus' brother discovered in Israel is now on display in the US. The limestone box, or ossuary, features the inscription 'James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus,' written in ancient Aramaic. Because the names correspond to those of Jesus of Nazareth's brother and father, many speculate that the box once held the remains of James the Just, the first leader of Christians in Jerusalem after the crucifixion.

Shocking bodycam footage revealed the moment Texas police officers shot a man in the head with pepper bullets as he sat on the grass outside of a cemetery. Guadalupe County officers were seen in the footage on June 27, 2021, approaching now 44-year-old Ronald Smith, who was sat cross-legged on the grass, with weapons held out in front of them pointed at Smith. Smith's attorney, Andres Cano, told DailyMail.com: 'He's waiting for his wife to come get him and he sees this [guy] running across with a gun pointed at him, yelling shrieking, shouting.' 'Within ten seconds, another one rolls...

I have supported aiding Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression. I don’t understand conservatives who want America to watch Russia crush an independent country. That is not the America I thought conservatism embraced. At the same time, the opponents of aid to Ukraine do make valid points. For example, America should not seek regime change in Russia; peace should be pursued as vigorously as war; and compromises — such as an agreement that Ukraine does not apply for NATO membership, at least for a specified amount of time — will be necessary. But there is one argument made by...

Tucker Carlson, THIS TAPE OVERTURNS THE SINGLE MOST POWERFUL AND POLITICALLY USEFUL LIE THE CONVICTED FELONS HAVE TOLD US ABOUT JANUARY 6TH. “The footage contains electronic bookmark that is still archived in the Capital’s computer system. That means Liz Cheney and the J6 Committee viewed this tape, she saw it, they saw it. But refused to release the tape. Why? because this tape would SHATTER THE FRUAD the Jan 6 Committee were perpetrating on the county.” Now, release the rest of the fucking tapes.

McCain blasts the American administration over its Ukraine response. well I'll say this senator I've known 2:00 you for a long long time interviewed you 2:02 many many times I've never heard you say 2:05 I'm ashamed of my country which you just 2:07 said.

Maryland black gun activists and youtuber Mark “Choppa” Manley was wrongly raided by the ATF. Mark talks about the raid with TCRL in this video.

this is a fight most Americans didn’t want—and it’s over a wall most Americans don’t want, either. Americans are largely pro-immigration; three-quarters of us believe that immigration is a good thing. And two out of three Americans think that immigration should either stay at its current level, or increase. More importantly, one survey found that more than half of Americans don’t want a new wall, or any broad security barrier at the border. In another survey, 40% of Americans polled chose the president backing down and accepting the $1.6 billion Democrats have already offered for border security as the most...

The collapse of the 20th-century media pyramid on which Lippmann’s assumptions rested, and its rapid replacement by monopoly social media platforms, made it possible for the Obama White House to sell policy—and reconfigure social attitudes and prejudices—in new ways. ... the term “echo chambers” to describe the process by which the White House and its wider penumbra of think tanks and NGOs generated an entirely new class of experts who credentialed each other on social media in order to advance assertions that would formerly have been seen as marginal or not credible, thereby overwhelming the efforts of traditional subject-area gatekeepers...

The Danish king has shocked some historians by changing the royal coat of arms to more prominently feature Greenland and the Faroe Islands – in what has also been seen as a rebuke to Donald Trump. Less than a year since succeeding his mother, Queen Margrethe, after she stood down on New Year’s Eve 2023, King Frederik has made a clear statement of intent to keep the autonomous Danish territory and former colony within the kingdom of Denmark. Donald Trump Jr in front of the statue of Hans Egede in Nuuk, Greenland, while on a private visit. Donald Trump Jr...

Forget about Disney princesses. Mickey Mouse might have just proved who’s the real king of Florida. The Walt Disney Co. used a legal clause that name checks King Charles III to apparently thwart Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ attempt to strip the company of its self-governance power in the state. For nearly a year, state legislators, encouraged by DeSantis, have sought to exert more control over the company’s Florida-based theme parks by passing a bill that would dissolve Disney’s special tax district. DeSantis also wanted to rename the area the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District and plant a new board of...

Shalom Lappin is the author of The New Antisemitism: The Resurgence of an Ancient Hatred in the Modern World (Polity) which won the 2024 LCSCA Book Prize Since the Hamas terrorist attack of 7 October 2023, Diaspora Jews have found themselves under sustained assault on a variety of fronts, from much of the radical left, and its Islamist allies.[1] People who pose as guardians of equality and anti-racism are leading violent demonstrations praising mass murder attacks against Israelis. They are urging the exclusion of all Jews who do not endorse their views from the mainstream of the social order. How...

Resident Etina Hingano was at home on the afternoon of Aug. 8, 2023. The noise of the wind-fueled fire approaching her apartment near Front Street was unlike anything she had heard before. "It was so loud and echoing throughout the whole Front Street area," she said. "I went outside and we looked up at Lahainaluna and all I saw was almost like a sideways tornado ...Hingano fled toward the ocean to escape the flames. She said she waited in the water for nine hours before she was rescued by the Maui Fire Department. I know the hurricane winds started at...

A pizza delivery worker has been charged with pushing her way into a motel room with an accomplice and stabbing a pregnant woman in front of her five-year-old daughter after a dispute over a lousy tip. Brianna Alvelo, 22, was charged with stabbing the woman in her motel room in Kissimmee, Florida, a short time after delivering a pizza to her on Sunday, according to the Osceola County Sheriff's Office. The woman gave Alvelo $50 on a $33.10 bill, expecting to receive $16.90 in change back. When Alvelo started walking away, the woman asked for money back, but the pizza...

President Joe Biden believes he would have defeated President-elect Donald Trump in November if his party had not pressured him to step aside, he told USA Today‘s Susan Page. Biden, 82, whom Special Counsel David Hur characterized as an elderly man with a poor memory, does not appear to remember the depths of his sinking campaign. Biden dropped out of the race following a poor debate performance that caused his polling and support among allies to tank. Several states considered solid blue, such as New Hampshire and Virginia, were showing signs of leaning toward Trump, an unfathomable downward trajectory that...

Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) – one of Governor Ron DeSantis’s most prominent supporters and lay advisers – will vote against efforts to hold Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff accountable for peddling Russia-gate conspiracies which led to countless conflicts in U.S. politics, and millions spent by authorities “investigating” the matter.Massie’s Congressional colleague Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) filed a motion to “censure, condemn, and fine” Rep. Schiff (D-CA) for pushing Russia-gate even after the Durham Report concluded the federal investigation into alleged Trump-Russia links had been baseless and biased..Schiff is renowned for telling outright lies in an effort to destabilize a sitting...